For new players, especially those coming from theme park MMOs like WoW, who are either unfamiliar with sandbox MMO politics or just plain new and wondering who is who and what is what. In an effort to assist fellow new players, we are posting our observations of some of the biggest and/or most known guilds.

SHU - Claims responsibility for the protection of Louyang and new players. They are, however, allied with Shinobi and GoonTangClan who are notorious for scamming and killing new players as well as old. Do not be fooled. Shu is a pawn guild.

GOONTANGCLAN - Part of the infamous Goons from somethingaweful.com known for their griefing and trolling in games like EVE Online. They are scammers, gankers, griefers, liers, and opportunists. They will try to make you think they are good guys and have successfully fooled many on the Blue Dragon server. If you see anyone trying to seel the Wild Goose flying skill for 550 Liang in world chat, it is 99% probable that the player is a Goon and will send you a similar looking book in CoD called Whirlwind Step (currently worth 4 Liang) in hopes that unaware players will not check first and get scammed out of player silver. Their strength lies in their ability to organize large groups rapidly for zerg fights. NO MATTER WHAT A GOON TELLS YOU... YOU CAN NOT JOIN THEIR GUILD UNLESS YOU BELONG TO SOMETHINGAWEFUL.COM!!! They run rather elaborate recruitment hoaxes as well to swindle hopeful applicants.

POLICE-DEPT - A supposedly Good aligned guild focused on the protection of other players and the punishment of criminals or collection of bounties. This guild is rather erratic but tends to keep to itself mostly. They will often put themselves in the center of other player conflicts. Last reports were that PD boasted the top 3 bounty hunters on the server.

SHINOBI - An average guild leftover from beta. On again, off again trouble makers with unofficial ties to GoonTangClan. Their leader was recently banned for buying gold from gold farmers and supporting those dudes that spam you all day long.

REBELLION - Unknown... Minimal contact... Another guild leftover from Beta. Seems to be one of the stronger guilds on the server currently.

KENPACHI - An average guild leftover from Beta. The guild has declined rapidly ever since their encounter with the up-and-coming guild, The-Axe-Gang. They are a guild of liars.

NINJA - Unknown... seem to keep to themselves mostly.

NBLOC - One of the biggest guilds leftover from Beta. They claim a strict neutrality in all matters. NBloc had bought up most of the Guild Territories on Blue Dragon BEFORE release, hoping to abuse their power left over from Beta when there was no reset to force smaller guilds into purchasing territories from them rather than getting them the way the game intended.

SANGUINEMOON - A small and tight-knit guild leftover from Beta. Seemingly most interested in PvE and Economics.

ASURASPATH - A small but steady PvP guild with honest members.

JADESPIDER - A small PvE guild.

THE-AXE-GANG - A small and tight knit PvP and PK guild from Launch dedicated to the growth and protection of its members and its Allies. Chaotic Neutral alignment.

BIGPVPNES - A small and tight knit PvP guild of skilled fighters. Honest members and a damn good ally to have.

KARMA - A small PvE guild.

((More to come as we continue to encounter each guild))

There are also a group of large Asian guilds on the server. They seem mostly concerned with PvE and Economics and in our experience have been very polite and friendly

I'm quoting your whole post because you're obviously new and know nothing about guild politics or what's happening on the server.

In the very beginning, when Closed Beta was first launched, the server was filled with large numbers of Vietnamese players and much smaller numbers of Chinese, Singaporean and North American players with the Vietnamese and Chinese players mostly being refugees from the Chinese and SEA versions of the game. The Vietnamese players quickly banded together and managed to use their game knowledge to take over all the school positions, buy up all the best skills and farm the instances. Guilds like Viet United and TDH have been around for ages and there's a reason why so many of their players are so well equipped and geared. A lot of the other guilds such as Shu, Exopac, Demigodz etc were quite small and were use to being dominated by the Vietnamese and for a while, especially on the Vietnamese forums, it looked like the top positions would always be occupied by the Vietnamese. People who have been playing since the beginning will remember constantly getting ganked by Vietnamese players and the general dominance they had.

Things drastically changed when a small number of goons from the Something Awful forum came into the game. On a side note, there's over 170,000 goons and the goons that are in this game are definitely not the EVE goons but just randoms.

Before GoonTangClan came, people didn't really do much PVP aside from being ganged up on in open world. Goons came and made use of all the PVP mechanics like robbing carts or pulling people off horses or setting naked blockades. A number of people (like PowPow, then leader of MO) took offense at this and directed their whole guild to kill goons.

The real turning point was when GoonTangClan, who were then extremely low leveled but more numerous and co-ordinated than other players, realised that because they were unable to take part in script stealing because they were just being killed on site, they could band together and blockade a school exit, killing players who had books and running out with those books. From there, numerous other guilds got mad because the Goons were somehow 'dishonourable' for killing players during a PVP event and so they banded together to try to wipe out the goons. If you could be bothered reading all the posts from this forum, you'll find numerous posts of people complaining about getting killed during the event. This tactic was so successful that people are still using it today.

After that, GoonTangClan, along with a number of other guilds, decided to break up the Viet dominance by providing some competition in school wars and guild wars. That leads us to our current guild political sphere. There are essentially two superpowers on Blue Dragon, the Vietbloc (including guilds like Viet United, TDH, DemiGodz, Magnum Opus, Rebellion and more recently Longshot, Fury and Kenpachi) and the FreedomBloc (which include GoonTangClan, TangChao, Kakis, Shinobi and Shu and some assorted others).

The Vietbloc use to consist of only Vietnamese guilds but became an 'anti goon' alliance when TDH entered into an alliance with DemiGodz and Magnum Opus. Expect the Vietnamese to kick the non-Vietnamese guilds out of this alliance if GoonTangClan ever quits the game.

The FreedomBloc aren't really a close knit alliance (or even named so) but they're dedicated to breaking up the Vietnamese dominance to even the playing field for the server. If they ever do managed to break up the Vietnamese dominance then you can expect these guilds to turn on each other. They're more creating content and gameplay than interested in dominating the server.

The guilds in these alliances aren't necessarily friendly with each other but they will defend each other in guild wars and general open world PVP. There are also good and bad people in each guild, say just because you see VietUnited constantly spamming racist messages in world and scene chat doesn't mean that all of VU is racist.

With that, here's a break down of who's who of the big boys in Blue Dragon listed down in terms of guild numbers and allegiances.

GoonTangClan (FreedomBloc)- Probably the most polarising guild on the server. The server would probably still be dominated by the Vietnamese if it wasn't for them and they're actually the source of most of the information you're getting about the game and have done incredible things supporting the game (go check out the videos/guides etc here written by goons). But for every good thing a goon does (such as give out free Shredded Beef to all RGs or telling smaller guilds how to get the rare random encounters like 'Speed up without a trace) there's probably another goon making your day miserable (such as vomiting on you until you're drunk or running you over in script stealing). Mainly PVP focused.

DemiGodz (Vietbloc) - An old beta guild but one lead by a literal 14 year old. Along with goons, they're probably one of the most hated guilds on the server due to their hypocrisy. They're suppose to be an 'honourable' guild but they openly break TPs and have a number of vocal racists and as of most recently, were caught on live stream and video exploiting during guild wars. They've lost a number of people but they've managed to recruit some of them back.

Kakis (FreedomBloc)- A Singaporean guild since beta. You won't see them around much unless you're playing in their timezones but they have a large number of high leveled players.

Longshot (Vietbloc) - Another small guild that has recently grown in size and power. They use to be closely allied with GoonTangClan but their leadership and playerbase changed so they switched to the other side and are now allied with the Vietnamese instead.

Police (Neutral) - It used to be a small guild lead by bounty hunter extraordinaire, Empress Wu (also known as Wubocop) but since the game has released, they've opened up their doors and increased in numbers. It's a shame that it's members are no longer required to be constables. They, if they haven't already, will probably side with the FreedomBloc due to their alliance with Shu and the Vietnamese guilds spamming numerous alts in the Tangman school meeting to vote out Empress Wu.

ThienDiaHoi (Vietbloc) - Largest and most powerful Vietnamese guild. They have had a number of internal issues but they're still around and are probably one of the most well equipped and high leveled guilds. Fighting TDH is fighting groups of players who will Spin2Win on you and then hit you with Taiji Sword Dance before switching to another expensive skill. Their actual skill level varies but they have a lot of shiny toys. A number of their members are also really, really creepy and do ***** like roleplaying the gang rape of an afk female character outside Chengdu bank.

Magnum-Opus (Vietbloc) - They use to be one of the most powerful guilds around but their numbers have dropped. Their founder and leader Powpow lost his account since he got caught selling it on ebay so the guilds direction has swayed back and forth. They were one of the first guilds to deliberately kill the goons on sight but I doubt most players in the guild are aware of how it started (it started because two goons raided a Magnum Opus cart which resulted in the whole guild hunting down goons for the next five months)

Brasil (Vietbloc) - A very new Brazilian guild that has shot up in power since it formed near release. I'm pretty sure they're the only Brazilian guild on the server. They were neutral for awhile but have recently joined up with the VietBloc.

NBloc (Neutral) - Another large guild since beta although they've also had a number of players leave and join. They have a large number of players but I'm not sure how many of them are still active and it's rare to see them take part in guild politics or pvp. I'm not sure but I think they're neutral.

VietUnited (VietBloc) - Probably of equal strength to TDH since they've been absorbing a number of other Vietnamese guilds like HuynhDe and SunMoon. They're the ones who have members spamming world chat with racial and sexist slurs but that obviously doesn't mean their whole guild is terrible.

Fury (VietBloc) - A recent member of the VietBloc. They have a lot of players who are quite knowledgable about the game from previous experience and so they've managed to slowly build up their powerbase.

Shinobi (FreedomBloc) - One of the smallest guilds in beta but has since grown in size to become one of the largest guilds on the server. Shinobi and GoonTangClan started out as enemies but they've become allies. They also hold a ridiculous number of guild bases. Also their guild leader, Namelus, wasn't banned for buying gold you idiot, Snail screwed up and his account is about to be unlocked.

NINJAS (Neutral) - Another old guild since beta. A large number of their players and leadership went into Shinobi but apparently the rest of them didn't get the message. I could be wrong but I think they're neutral

HuatAh (Neutral) - A Singaporean guild composed of ex Eionsof and other random high leveled players from defunct guilds like Bakapandas. More interested in PVE than PVP although sooner or later they're probably going to have to choose a side.

TangChao (FreedomBloc) - A Chinese guild composed of a number of high leveled Chinese players, they've recently opened their doors to lower leveled Chinese players and so have increased in size. They're probably the guild with the most information about how this game actually works.

Shu (FreedomBloc) - One of the oldest guilds and it's grown and diminished several times. It's still one of the strongest guilds on the server and it has a pretty friendly atmosphere. As Sushi said, they're not friends with the goons but they are interested in making this a better game and breaking up the monotony.

There's other guilds I could talk about like FlyingDagger or Rebellion (Vietbloc) or Kenpachi (Vietbloc) but they're not really major players yet on the politics scene.

Keep in mind that this list is compiled from first hand experience. Nothing in this list has not been personally experienced or witnessed by those involved in its writing.

Oh and SHU guys... lol my arse off at you protecting The-Axe-Gang... What in the world are you talking about? Why would you even think of adding us to your protect list, if even to dismiss it? We are your enemy. We wreck your players, break up your TPs, kill your cultivating AFKers in both schools and guild HQs and you want to infer we need something from you? lolol

Thanks for treating your members so poorly and swelling our ranks with new recruits =3

Also, yes, as was already stated, we are new players. This list is for other new players so they dont get sucked into the BS some of the bigger beta guilds try to throw out there. We don't care about what led to what during beta because beta doesn't count. It isnt the real game. 5 or 6 month head start with opportunity to exploit every bug and glitch in the game to gain power AND already be fully established on Launch day with territories and all. Just so happens Blue Dragon wasn't reset. This information is from Launch day 1 and on.

This post wasn't just for the "big boys" of the server... if by big boys you mean like being a child with a growth speed defficiency that makes him taller or something. A 5 to 6 month head start on everyone else on the server during a time in which the game rules and mechanics were not entirely/officially established "in stone" does not constitute any sort of bragging rights. Get over yourselves. This is a list of any and every guild we encounter on the server. Not just the beta guilds.

I'm sure there are a lot of damn fine players in these beta guilds, but please dont run around calling yourselves the "big boys" of the server like you earned it. You look like a Top-Shottas Flows with Chi who rubs the Killing Manor title in someones face because he spent all day killing 300 afk First Understandings.

Keep in mind that this list is compiled from first hand experience. Nothing in this list has not been personally experienced or witnessed by those involved in its writing.

Oh and SHU guys... lol my arse off at you protecting The-Axe-Gang... What in the world are you talking about? Why would you even think of adding us to your protect list, if even to dismiss it? We are your enemy. We wreck your players, break up your TPs, kill your cultivating AFKers in both schools and guild HQs and you want to infer we need something from you? lolol

Thanks for treating your members so poorly and swelling our ranks with new recruits =3

Also, yes, as was already stated, we are new players. This list is for other new players so they dont get sucked into the BS some of the bigger beta guilds try to throw out there. We don't care about what led to what during beta because beta doesn't count. It isnt the real game. 5 or 6 month head start with opportunity to exploit every bug and glitch in the game to gain power AND already be fully established on Launch day with territories and all. Just so happens Blue Dragon wasn't reset. This information is from Launch day 1 and on.

You are [bleep]ing pathetic. What players are you "wrecking"? Our AFK ones? I'd love to see any of you go up against our Halls / Vices. If you are so good, why don't you war us? Afraid of what will happen?

Your 2D "protection" fee is laughable. I had a good laugh about it in Mumble. I don't need protection from ants.

You basically troll us, as I understand it. Breaking up TPs, killing AFK'ers, basically all the things you expect a crappy guild to resort to when they have no other options.

The players you got from us would have been kicked regardless. One of them directly lied to me, and will be getting a visit from me very soon.

I anything all guilds are guilty of some bad things but not much. yes everyone has their good and bad. The mst friendy guild as of nwis Endless, were they wanto to ally with as man as they ca. they are a good guild with a good heart.

*cute and innocent face* I am a good person. But I get into so much trouble why? *shrugs* because I'm so liked, I'm hated! *dance*

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